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dae (does anyone else) think its weird that there are like, 3 cat4gory of laptop: student, business, and gaming? these categories are stupid. 1) student and business laptops should be the same thing. 2) gaming laptops are bad and should be uninvented 3) there should be an engineering/scientific laptop which is a performance laptop targeted at serious users
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:dae (does anyone else) think its weird that there are like, 3 cat4gory of laptop: student, business, and gaming? these categories are stupid. that's a laptop with a deece processor, a bunch of ram and a low tier video card. basically a low end gaming laptop should suit your needs
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May 30, 2016 19:08
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its the Macbook Pro, OP
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May 30, 2016 19:16
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Ludwig van Halen posted:its the Macbook Pro, OP nobody has made a good non macbook laptop yet
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May 30, 2016 19:21
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:3) there should be an engineering/scientific laptop which is a performance laptop targeted at serious users well, like that hot new meme sweeping the forums goes, there ain't no such thing as a free computer
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May 30, 2016 19:27
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Ludwig van Halen posted:its the Macbook Pro, OP
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May 30, 2016 19:41
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just replace all non-gaming laps with an appropriately priced chromebook, and replace all gamer laptops with a mini tower & good monitor
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May 30, 2016 19:44
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akadajet posted:nobody has made a good non macbook laptop yet why doesn't someone just go do that??? what's making it so impossible?
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May 30, 2016 19:44
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the thinkpad that my job gives me is supposedly like the best non macbook but it's utter loving garbage
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May 30, 2016 19:44
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thinkpad w540/i think it's called the p50 now
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May 30, 2016 20:17
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yeah you're looking for either a workstation or a macbook pro no idea if the dell workstations still smell like catpiss or not
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May 30, 2016 20:22
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just get a x1 carbon op
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May 30, 2016 20:32
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now that yospos hates macs can we replace the "just get a mbp" with the x1 carbon? it is p. good, no preinstalled trojans or anything these days
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May 30, 2016 20:33
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it is a bad idea because engineers are insufferable, it would just encourage them to say the word "engineer" more. the target audience would be that dude on my ferry who said the word engineer several hundreds of times to a girl he trapped in conversation
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May 30, 2016 20:40
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:why doesn't someone just go do that??? what's making it so impossible? idunno. i guess bc windows users will put up with all sorts of bullshit and think its good
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May 30, 2016 20:43
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:now that yospos hates macs can we replace the "just get a mbp" with the x1 carbon? it is p. good, no preinstalled trojans or anything these days nobody hates macs you loving idiot
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May 30, 2016 20:46
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the mac hate is ironic
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May 30, 2016 20:47
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May 30, 2016 20:54
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gnrk posted:nobody hates macs you loving idiot now that cremknob is back
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May 30, 2016 20:56
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engineers use mighty desktop computers running the most powerful operating system in the world
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May 30, 2016 21:11
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treasure bear posted:engineers use mighty desktop computers running the most powerful operating system in the world templeOS!
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May 30, 2016 21:13
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if you're doing engineering stuff why do you need a powerful laptop if you're just going to ssh into some cluster
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May 30, 2016 21:13
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how long until the US implements laws naming jobs engineer, first or second time someone is killed by a high school grad who cludged his way into being called an "engineer"? "i'm a network engineer, i have my A+ and everything!  "
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May 30, 2016 21:29
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engineering/scientific targeted laptops already exist they're called dell precision mobile workstations, op
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May 30, 2016 23:04
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mishaq posted:engineering/scientific targeted laptops already exist correct Radio Paranoia posted:that's a laptop with a deece processor, a bunch of ram and a low tier video card. basically a low end gaming laptop should suit your needs a science laptop actually probably wants a pretty beefy graphics card so you can offload all your number crunching there, but you need to be a bit careful about its integer v floating point performance depending on your application
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May 30, 2016 23:50
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no, a "science laptop" probably needs an internet connection so you can fire up your EC2 instances because jesus christ trying to compute actual numbers on a _laptop_
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May 30, 2016 23:52
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but what if your crotch is cold?
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May 30, 2016 23:55
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Apocadall posted:how long until the US implements laws naming jobs engineer, first or second time someone is killed by a high school grad who cludged his way into being called an "engineer"? those laws already exist there's just an exception if you're not working on a public piece of infrastructure (or oil drilling platforms as of deepwater horizon)
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May 30, 2016 23:58
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Illusive gently caress Man posted:just replace all non-gaming laps with an appropriately priced chromebook, and replace all gamer laptops with a mini tower & good monitor lmao noooope. unless you want me to root the chromebook like a loving animal, to run software thats actually usable like firefox and thunderbird, in addition to the stuff i use to get work done like R and pycharm and a latex distribution also x1 carbon is not great but seems to be better than every other alternative i have seen, runs kubuntu 16.04 well
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May 31, 2016 00:01
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check out this power user
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May 31, 2016 00:02
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thank you for understandng that i have Serious Computer Needs and any old pleb laptop just will not do
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May 31, 2016 00:13
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student laptops are for poor people, business people have more money so they should have finer materials and leather keys. who cares about gaming
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May 31, 2016 00:18
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akadajet posted:nobody has made a good non macbook laptop yet oh people have. just not for a long, long time. 
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May 31, 2016 00:23
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Jonny 290 posted:no, a "science laptop" probably needs an internet connection so you can fire up your EC2 instances because jesus christ trying to compute actual numbers on a _laptop_ you vastly overestimate most scientists' computing knowledge and underestimate most labs' refusal to try new things. if it's going off the local machine at all it'll be to the research institute's own custom research cluster, and even that's unlikely outside of a physics or computer science lab
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May 31, 2016 00:25
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Jonny 290 posted:no, a "science laptop" probably needs an internet connection so you can fire up your EC2 instances because jesus christ trying to compute actual numbers on a _laptop_ but EC2 is bad 
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May 31, 2016 00:28
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i like my lenovo t530 with it's bastard hybrid graphics that makes multiple monitors impossible in fedora first and only thinkpad i've ever owned, so i have no idea how it compares to the people that want exactly same keyboard and everything of older ibm thinkpads suits my needs
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May 31, 2016 01:36
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big scary monsters posted:you vastly overestimate most scientists' computing knowledge and underestimate most labs' refusal to try new things. if it's going off the local machine at all it'll be to the research institute's own custom research cluster, and even that's unlikely outside of a physics or computer science lab my previous job was a company that does scientific computing (kinda) and my issued laptop was a murdered out dell precision m4800 with 32 GB of RAM and a quadro card i used my own mac instead 
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May 31, 2016 01:39
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i want an engineer computer that ayn rand would applaud
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May 31, 2016 02:47
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treasure bear posted:i want an engineer computer that ayn rand would applaud a form factor that she could cram up her joyless quimhole would slake her lust for a short while
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treasure bear posted:i want an engineer computer that ayn rand would applaud we dont need a rapey computer
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